US Suggests Destruction Unit for Syria Chemical Weapon Destruction

It gave a briefing on the unit
on Tuesday to officials at the Hague-based Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, who are deciding what technology to use
for the ambitious chemical weapons destruction plan, two officials
said.

Initial
talks between Washington and Moscow about where to destroy the
stockpile included shipping it abroad, but it is illegal for most
countries to import chemical weapons, making on-site destruction more
likely

Syria and the OPCW must make a decision on what technology will be used by November 15.

"Our
people's initial response was that it looks encouraging. It looks
ideal," said a source in the OPCW who attended the briefing. "But we
don't know how it will perform in the field and we would like to know
the response from Syria and other countries with similar technology."

The source said two of the units have been produced and several more are under production.It
will largely depend on how Syria's suspected 1,000 tons of sarin,
mustard and XV nerve agents are stored. The unit can destroy bulk
chemicals, or precursors, but not munitions with a toxic payload.
Separating these is more dangerous and time-consuming than incinerating
or neutralizing precursor chemicals.

"This
is very big business, very political, and several governments are
pushing for it," ($$$) said chemical weapons expert Dieter Rothbacher, who
used to train inspectors at the OPCW. "These units will be operating in
Syria for a long period of time."

Several
countries have already been contacted to provide technicians for trials
with the U.S.-made unit, which finished a trial stage in August after
half a year of development, said a source who asked not to be named. It
is known as the Field Deployable Hydrolysis System (FDHS).

A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the unit costs roughly $5 million to build.

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The
official confirmed that a senior U.S. defense official briefed the OPCW
about the system, developed at the U.S. Army's Edgewood Chemical
Biological Center. It could be operational within 10 days of arriving on
site, the center says on its website.

"In
terms of the situation on the ground in Syria, it is the best viable
option," said a person briefed about the FDHS unit, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.

OPCW
spokesman Michael Luhan had no official comment about the reported
briefing, saying the deadline for the detailed plan for the destruction
of Syria's chemical weapons was November 15. The Pentagon could not
immediately be reached for comment.

More
than two dozen inspectors are already in Syria and have to visit at
least 20 production, storage and research sites, some of them in
rebel-held territory.As many as
100 experts will be needed to carry out a labor-intensive verification
process, collect and secure declared weapons and witness the entire
destruction process.

The OPCW,
established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, is a tiny
organization with around 500 staff and an annual budget of under $100
million. It will need significantly more to finish this task.Many
members of the OPCW, including Russia, China, France, Ireland, Britain
and the United States, have offered to provide technicians, experts and
several million dollars in funding.

Experts
say meeting the June 2014 deadline for complete destruction is a
difficult goal because the chemicals and weapons are spread over dozens
of sites and foreign inspectors have never worked in an ongoing
conflict.

Ceasefires will have to
be negotiated with opposition forces to allow for safe access to sites
in their territory in a conflict that has already claimed 100,000 lives.

The
U.S. unit, built by the ECBC and the government's Defense Threat
Reduction Agency, is operated by a crew of 15. It can destroy up to 25
metric tons of chemical agents per day when run around the clock,
according to Edgewood. Several units could be located on the same site,
enabling the sharing of security and other assets, it said.

25 metric tons a day when run around the clock?
4 days = 100 tons
Syria is alleged to have approximately 900 to 1000 tons of chemicals.
How many days would this take to destroy? Best case scenario, 40 days?
It seems that the destruction could be done well ahead before the June 2014 deadline, no?
The problem may lie with calling off the hired killers. That would be entirely up to the NATO global terror army and their partners in crime in Israel and the GCC nations

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